Four strategic bond managers on what could wrong-foot investors

What could wrong-foot investors?

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Speakers at Investment Week's Strategic Bond Breakfast Briefing explain how they are coping with 'distorted' fixed income markets.

Steven Bell, co-manager of the F&C Macro Global Bond fund How have central bank policies distorted bond markets? Central banks have always influenced bond markets through setting short term interest rates, targeting inflation and investing foreign exchange reserves. In recent years this influence has grown dramatically. This is most obvious in quantitative easing (QE) programmes, with the European Central Bank's version being particularly powerful - distorting if you like - as it is large and combined with negative interest rates. The deputy chair of the US Federal Reserve, Stanle...

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